Thursday, April 26, 2007

stupidly, i overlooked this detail inthe flurry of activity yesterday -- onlyto remember what i had actually read, this morning. . .

and so, as "just.-one.-more.-step." in thecovington & burling law firm's "slow-walk" response strategy, on behalfof its client, mike duncan and the r.n.c., to representative henry waxman, the above letter,trying to buy some more time, was delivered to waxman on the morning of april 25, 2007.

we now know that this attempt to stave off the issuance of a subpoena failed -- in fact,rep. waxman referred to the letter rather aridly(!) in his opening statementat yesterday's meeting. . .

what seems lost -- as we all (i) tossed iton the heap of delay-tactics-waste-of-dead-tree-resources -- are a few rathertellling paragraphs. . . so, let's look,with "our better eyes", this time:

note that the stroz friedberg l.l.c.forensic experts have "imaged" many ofthe r.n.c. devices -- blackberries,laptops, computers and presumably, then -- the servers, as well[full-text PDF of the letter here]. . .

the upshot here is even if someone,anyone, inside or outside the administrationhad a plan to alter the records, they arenow arriving too late. a completely inde-pendent copy -- presumably of everything,for that is what stroz has been retained to"retrieve" -- now exists.

I don't get a chance to surf around as much as I would like, but am happy to have tumbled onto your little piece of toobz real estate here.

Your layout here is creative and interesting, and you highlight the key points of (mal)administration duplicity very well, indeed. I like the way you pick out the overlooked, but choice, details in the correspondence to Congress.

all content: (cc) 2007-08

the buddha said

IN LIGHT OF THE CLEAR EVIDENCE OF “A HIGHER INVOLVEMENT” IN I. LEWIS SCOOTER LIBBY’S PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE -- AND THEN THE JULY 2, 2007 PRISON SENTENCE AND IMMEDIATE, BREATH-TAKING JULY 2, 2007 PRESIDENTIAL COMMUTATION OF THAT SENTENCE -- IT IS HIGH TIME TO EXAMINE THE MERITS OF INDICTING THE VICE PRESIDENT, DICK CHENEY, AS THE LEADER OF A CONSPIRACY TO MISUSE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION, AND COMPROMISE C.I.A. OPERATIVES — ALL FOR PARTISAN POLITICAL RETRIBUTION.